Tee it up, Mother Nature: Thursday could be another record-breaker, the latest in a series.

Denver’s forecast high tomorrow is 85 degrees. The record is 86 set in 1991, 17 degrees warmer than the 30-year average high for May 10. Then we have deja vu for last Sunday and Monday, forecasters say.

Rain and cold move in tomorrow night. The forecast high for Friday and Saturday is 51 degrees. with solid chances of rain all the way to Sunday, when clouds clear a bit and the temperature warms up to 62 degrees.

Sure, it’s been a wild couple of weeks in Colorado weather, but that’s just how December rolls into January around these parts.

The high in Denver today was 36 degrees, 7 degrees colder than normal, according to National Weather Service data. It felt about 10 degrees colder because of the humidity in the air from the steadily melting snow and lingering breezes, forecasters said.

Twice in the past week, however, the Front Range and foothills saw wind gusts in excess of 100 mph. In Summit County Saturday, as easterly winds raced up to the Continental Divide, Frisco clocked winds that the speedometer on the average U.S. automobile couldn’t measure: 126 mph.

That followed a foot of snow and bitter cold the week before at my house in Edgewater.

Could we get a warm, sunny day, Mother Nature? Prayer answered: Denver could hit 60 degrees Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, according to the forecast.

But if it’s wacky weather we’re talking about, this stretch is button-down dull.

Take Jan. 1, 1875, when the temperature fell 27 degrees in two hours in the city, from a balmy 43 degrees at 3 p.m. to a ch-ch-chilly 8 degrees at 5 p.m.

And twice — in 1952 and 2003 — a pittance of snow fell in Denver on New Year’s Day, and that turned out to be just about the only recorded precipitation the entire month, according to records.

The 0.01″ of snow in 1952 tied the driest January in history with consecutive years, 1933 and 1934. The 0.03″ in 2003 tied with 1935 and 1914.

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Denver was minus-29 degrees on Jan. 9, 1875 — enroute to the third-coldest January on record, a daily average of 18.1 degrees.

Over the past 30 years, Denver has averaged 7 inches of snow in January, with an average daily temperature of 30.7 degrees.

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